PRESS: My things

Each month, the Southern Marin Mothers’ Club Crier asks stylish mamas and local tastemakers to spill their secrets and share their stuff. Here, local style expert and author Katie Rice Jones, tells us her favorite places to go in her neighborhood, and lets us in on the one thing she can’t live without.STYLEFavorite piece of jewelry:Engagement ring and any number of hand-crafted beaded pieces my children have fashioned for me

ENTERTAINMENTBooks you’re currently reading:
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
The Road to Character by David Brooks
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (required reading for the “Kate & Brad Book Club”)

All-time favorite books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

If I wasn’t a style expert/author of Fashion Dues & Duen’ts; a Stylist’s Guide to Fashionably Embracing Your Baby Bump, I would be a…
Culture and history scholar working for Unesco’s at their World Heritage sites

Item you keep purchasing over and over:
Essential oils from Body Time, San Anselmo. I am a scent junky.

Something most people don’t know about you:
I love beef jerky

Signature drink:
Bourbon on the rocks

Pet peeve:
Snarky people

Favorite ritual:
Grabbing a coffee each morning at the San Anselmo Coffee Roastery

Best thing about your neighborhood:
View of the San Francisco Theological Seminary and its tolling bells

(Piece originally featured on Southern Marin Mothers Club site, SMMCCrier.com)

Allison Klein Backer is Blog Editor and Content Writer for the SMMC Crier. She is also a freelance editorial director and fashion copywriter. She lives in Mill Valley with her husband and daughter.